Empire and Imperialism: Europe. Few subjects have generated as much controversy as that of European imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Because of the term's pejorative connotations, even attempting to define it causes difficulties.
Edmund Burke. From Conservapedia. Edmund Burke (born January 12, 1729 in Dublin, died July 9, 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, an orator, and a leading conservative political theorist who is still widely read and continue to shape conservative attitudes.
Thomas Cromwell was a man who rose up from the back streets of Putney to be Henry VIII's right hand man. In Wolf Hall heâs portrayed as an idealist who masterminded the Kingâs divorce from Catherine of Aragon and helped create the Church of England. But some think he was an arch-manipulator who used bullying and torture to bring about the execution of victims like Thomas More and Henry VIII's wife Anne Boleyn. As a servant to the King, Cromwell made difficult decisions that shaped his destiny.